Motivational Quotes

Children

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

- Friedan, Betty

Best Quotes about Children

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

10.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

11.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

12.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

13.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

14.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

15.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

16.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

17.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

18.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

19.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

20.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

21.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

22.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

23.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

24.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

25.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

26.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

27.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

28.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

29.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

30.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

31.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

32.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

33.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

34.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

35.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

36.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

37.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

38.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

39.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

40.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

41.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

42.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

43.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

44.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

45.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

46.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

47.

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.